Footballbits and pieces

Thunderbooted, thunderthighed Chelsea centre-back Alex will miss the next six to eight weeks of the season due to an ongoing knee injury, the club have confirmed. A statement on the Chelsea’s official website reads: “Further to the Chelsea medical team’s diagnosis, the Brazilian national team doctors agree that further investigation via arthroscopic surgery is required [...]

Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck has refused to confirm whether the Blues are in talks about moving to a new 60,000-seater stadium in Earls Court, as was reported this morning. Reports claim Chelsea are in talks about moving to the site of the current Earls Court exhibition centre (located less than a mile from Stamford Bridge), [...]

The issue of wage increases has been brought into the spotlight once again by the news that Wayne Rooney has signed a vastly-improved contract at Manchester United, having agitated for a move away from Old Trafford. It was Chelsea who famously stimulated the market following Roman Abramovich’s arrival in 2003, a role now undertaken by [...]

August 16th, 2010 1. Ian Holloway would like to be taken seriously. Sky and the BBC must have been rubbing their hands together as the Ian Holloway led Blackpool had a dream start against Wigan. Holloway has been known for many seasons as a wonderfully out there quote machine, but his post match interview was [...]

You may remember Chelsea FC from such things as the Premiership, the Champions League and the Gael Kakuta fiasco of 2009. The latter is particularly important since they were thrown under the bus for their participation in the ritual practice of English clubs snapping up from rich resources abroad. Sometimes in a helicopter. Fresh off [...]